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Apple Adds Editors’ Choice and App Of The Week To Mac App Store and iTunes
Finding some of the best apps on the Apple App Store can be rather difficult. This is why Apple acquired Chomp. Apple has also launched a new section called for iTunes and the Mac App Store called “Editors’ Choice.” The current Editors’ Choice on the iTunes is Cobook, Facebook Camera, Extreme Skater, Air Mail, and Sketchbook Ink. As part of the “app of the week” series, Apple has made Cut The Rope: Experiments free. The Amazon Appstore is known for offering apps for free at a heavy discount, promotional discounts for iOS and the Mac App Store are up to the developer. To my understanding, if a developer significantly reduces their price as requested by Apple, they would be given 100% of the revenue rather than the typical 70-30 split.
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Jeff Robbin Believed To Be Spearheading The Rumored Apple HDTV Initiative
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) vice president of consumer applications Jeff Robbin is best known for developing iTunes and helped create the iPod. According to sources with Bloomberg, Robbin will now be spearheading the development of an Apple television set. Before Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away, he told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he had “finally cracked” how to build an integrated TV set with a simple user interface that could wirelessly synchronize content with Apple’s other devices.
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New UI for iTunes 11?
Apple’s upcoming iTunes 11 is rumored to be a significant redesign of the program. Speculated specs include iTunes and iCloud integration, the iTunes store getting fully integrated into the app and, for the first time since its first incarnation, a fancy new UI. [Business Insider / idownloadblog]
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Amazon.com Drops Price Of Top-Selling MP3 Songs To $0.69
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has declared a price war with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) by lowering the price of top selling music in a further effort to compete with iTunes. Now the average price on hit songs on Amazon are $0.69. Some of the hits songs that Amazon.com lowered the price on as of right now includes Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” and Katy Perry’s “E.T.” Amazon.com has around a 10% market share and Apple has about 70% for the digital download music market according to the NPD Group. Apple is selling top selling songs for $1.29, almost double of what Amazon.com charges now. [LA Times]
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Apple iTunes U Hits 300 Million Downloads
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced that they have hit the 300 million download mark for iTunes U. It took about three years to hit this mark. About 800 universities have iTunes U websites. Half of that number of universities distribute content on iTunes too.
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Beware Of The PayPal and iTunes Hack Scam [WARNING]
Many people on Twitter and Facebook are reporting a hacker scam that is taking place on PayPal and Apple iTunes. There is a security hole in iTunes accounts that are linked to PayPal. Scammers have found a way to charge a lot of money to iTunes through the accounts of other people’s PayPal.
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iTunes Syncing In The Cloud On The Way
A source with Boy Genius Report said that Apple will soon be putting huge cloud capabilities in iTunes. This could almost eliminate the need for you to store content from iTunes on to your device (what normally takes up a big chunk of your iPod Touch or iPhone hard drive). These new capabilities will allow iTunes to:
1.) Stream music and movies from Apple to your computers and devices.
2.) Stream music and movies from your computers at home to your other computers or mobile devices.
3.) Wireless sync iTunes with devices.
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Apple Releases An iTunes Connect Mobile App
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released a new application [iTunes link] called iTunes Connect Mobile for developers that want to see their sales on-the-go. Developers will be able to see daily and weekly sales data. This includes paid apps, free apps, and in-app purchases. The iPhone and iPod Touch application works with the iPhone OS 3.0 or higher. This is Apple’s sixth iPhone application that they created.
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iTunes Accounts For 26.7% Of All Music Sold Last Year
iTunes, the music, movie, podcast, and application downloading software created by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) sells more music than Wal-Mart and Best Buy put together. iTunes now accounts for 26.7% of all music sold last year. This makes Apple the top retailer for music in the U.S. [Gizmodo]
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Steve Jobs Gives Surprise Call To 10 Billionth iTunes Song Customer Louie Sulcer
This past week Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) sold their 10 billionth song on iTunes. The 10 billionth customer was Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia. Given the milestone, Steve Jobs decided to reach out to Sulcer through a phone call. “He called me and said, ‘This is Steve Jobs from Apple.’ I said, ‘Yeah right,’ ” said Sulcer in an interview with Rolling Stone. “I have a son that loves to play tricks and he does that every now and then — calls me and imitates somebody.”
Sulcer’s caller ID said Apple on it and he had no idea that there was a contest taking place on iTunes. The 10 billionth customer would be given a $10,000 iTunes gift card. The 10 billionth song to be downloaded was “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash. [Rolling Stone]
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